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Yokohama, Japan

An employee paints a strawberry food sample made of vinyl at the Iwasaki Co., LTD sample food factory, in Yokohama, Japan, March 3, 2014.

Sample food products can be seen in the windows of many restaurants throughout Japan.

The factory creates precision replica food plates molded from real food supplied by the client. The Iwasaki Co., LTD facility is one of the largest suppliers in Japan, producing approximately 270,000 sample plates per year to over 20,000 food outlets across Japan and internationally.

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Yokohama, Japan

A cabinet showing off finished food samples is seen at the Iwasaki Co., LTD sample food factory, March 3, 2014.

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Yokohama, Japan

A mold is taken of real fish before food samples are made from it at the Iwasaki Co., LTD sample food factory, March 3, 2014.

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Yokohama, Japan

An employee paints a sample of vinyl fish, March 3, 2014.

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Yokohama, Japan

An employee paints vegetable food samples made of vinyl, March 3, 2014.

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Yokohama, Japan

An employee puts the finishing touches on food sample plates made of vinyl, March 3, 2014.

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Yokohama, Japan

A finished beer food sample is seen in a cabinet at the Iwasaki Co., LTD sample food factory, March 3, 2014.

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Yokohama, Japan

An employee adds color dye into noodle food samples made of vinyl, March 3, 2014.

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Yokohama, Japan

Sample shrimp are seen in a drawer at the Iwasaki Co., LTD sample food factory, March 3, 2014.

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Yokohama, Japan

An employee puts the finishing touches to a cake food sample, March 3, 2014.